Yesterday, soon-to-be working again late night host, Conan O’Brien joined Twitter with a single tweet: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.” Read more »
The voice-over for this vintage NBC news report from 1976 warns: “This is a part of Brooklyn that few people see anymore. It is the 83rd precinct, a battleground for the police and young street criminals.” Ha. That would place it smack dab in the middle of Bushwick. Watch this rare footage about the legendary hell-raising ‘Devils Rebels‘ as they battle an equally grimy gang: the NYPD.
Last year, NBC contacted photographer and blogger, Doc Searls, and asked if they could use his ice crystal photos as part of their Vancouver Olympics title screens, and he agreed…for free. While one part of me applauds someone on flickr not hoarding their images and being open source about them, the other argues that a network willing to lose $100 million to broadcast the Games, can also afford to pay for creative. There’s just something not right about giving media monoliths artwork for free—even if getting credit alone makes you giddy.
A minor racial controversy erupted yesterday afternoon when ?uestlove posted a photo he took in the NBC cafeteria to his Twitter account, a picture of a special menu offering for Black History Month featuring fried chicken, black-eyed peas, and collard greens. In his tweet, ?uestlove posted the note, “Hmm HR?”, insinuating that the NBC brass needed to consider the whole thing racist. But the menu was prepared by a black cafeteria worker who says that ?uestlove actually discussed the menu with her and specifically requested neck bones in the black-eyed peas. Read more »
According to the internet, Conan O’Brien and NBC reached a settlement yesterday that will pay he and his staff $45-million. Interestingly, Conan’s settlement contains a “nondisparagement clause” stating that he can’t make fun of NBC publicly for an undisclosed period of time after he leaves the network, which means he’ll be unloading both barrels tonight. Set your DVRs kids! Meanwhile, Leno will appear on Oprah to try to salvage his reputation. |WSJ|
Just when you think the seemingly never-ending late night talk show wars were winding down, along comes Monday night to flare them back up again. So what happened last night? Letterman admitted that he’s “really enjoying” making relentless fun of Leno, Leno said all of this is the network’s fault and Jeff Zucker praised himself. Read more »
You’d be hard-pressed to go back in time and find a more fascinating week in television history in the wake of the whole Conan/Leno/NBC fiasco. You’d also be hard-pressed to go back in time and find a week in which Jay Leno’s image took the pounding it took this week. And now it’s getting worse! Read more »
America’s late night talk show hosts continued to savage Jay Leno and NBC last night. Each night seems to get bloodier and it’s hard not to love it. With that said, the most harsh and cringe-worthy rhetorical beatdown was dished out by Jimmy Kimmel, on Leno’s own show no less! Read more »
As NBC’s late night show hosts continue to trade barbs and fans start to dig in, at least one side is winning the product war. On CafePress, Team Conan currently leads with a healthy deployment of: t-shirts, buttons, aprons, stickers, and even a keepsake box. Team Jay?: a teddy bear.
Jeff Zucker, the miserable ass-goblin who runs NBC, the very man responsible for the whole Conan/Leno clusterfuck, is apparently pissed off that Conan’s public statement the other day has turned him into every late night talk show host’s whipping boy and is playing some serious hardball. In short, he’s trying to fuck Conan hard. Read more »
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